Name

kOfxPropHostOSHandle — A pointer to an operating system specific application handle.

Synopsis

#include "/ofxCore.h"
#define kOfxPropHostOSHandle "OfxPropHostOSHandle"

Type

kOfxPropHostOSHandle is of type pointer, and has only a single dimension.

Property Set

This is a property that belongs to the host descriptor..

Description

A pointer to an operating system specific application handle.

Some plug-in vendor want raw OS specific handles back from the host so they can do interesting things with host OS APIs. Typically this is to control windowing properly on Microsoft Windows. This property returns the appropriate 'root' window handle on the current operating system. So on Windows this would be the hWnd of the application main window.